In IBM: * Early 1990’s: decentralized geographic and functional departments * Mid-late 1990’s: Distribution and logistics functions centralized into a global organization with world-wide responsibility * Early 2000’s: merger of Customer Fulfillment‚ Procurement‚ Manufacturing‚ and Global Logistics/Distribution functions into a new global Integrated Supply Chain function * Result: cost savings of $5.6B in 2002 and $7B in 2003 * A Case study on IBM * IBM developed
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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND My grandparents would always say “What goes around surely does come back around.” Looking back on my life I see that I have made many mistakes and majority due to my lack of patience and never listening to what my elders told me. If I had only listened to their words of wisdom and took into consideration what was being told to me‚ I would have saved myself a lot of trouble. Coming The first valuable lesson I learned was my ninth grade year of high school‚ when
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them many diseases which wiped out many Indian villages and tribes. The Indians also had a hard time excepting the invasions on new territories‚ which led to many wars. This resulted in a large decrease of the Indian population‚ so some Indians turned to Cristianity and other European traditions. On the otherhand‚ many Indians insisted that European beliefs should exist only amongst themselves. They had no business trying to introduce a new religion when the Indian’s traditions have been practiced
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we can receive it irrespective of time and much quicker than earlier. We without fail carry the Internet to number of such conveniences. The world wide web unites many functions thanking which the person can remain educated in all affairs occurring around‚ sociable‚ and simply intellectual personality. Using the Internet‚ I can congratulate my friends on a holiday where they were. We can ask each other about the help‚ encourage each other if we have problems. On the other hand‚ since I started using
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Ontario Ministry/IBM Case Study Executive Summary As stated in the case EDU was divided into divisions‚ branches and different units‚ and as a single company employee’s need to feel as one with no boundaries. Implementing a document management system will help them come together as a company rather than a department. Getting people to feel they are part of a company rather than a department will help build trust between all employee’s and departments. Once implementation is complete‚ I would
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“Leadership‚ Change and Growth: CIO as a driver of business at IBM” Dr Shaobo Ji Sohaib Amjad Sn#100616776 Abstract: The case study analyses the evolving role of CIO at IBM as a driver of growth and change within the organization. It makes an attempt to first describe 2 key challenges facing a CIO working for a “smart” and integrated enterprise and ends by making recommendations which can serve as a blue print not only for IBM but for any organization looking to use IT as a primary source
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“LOUIS BRAILLE A LIGHT IN THE DARK” In this world today tons of people are blind‚ like Louis Braille. Today some of the blind kids are poor that cannot go to school and some of them are that can go to blind schools. In this story Louis Braille struggles rigorously to create new system of reading for blind people. and how his system is received at the the first and second time and the differences between them. Louis Braille’s dot system received at first .for example “In 1824 he made his reading
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the slicker and responsive rivals such as Microsoft‚ Dell and Oracle‚ IBM had to push the awake call alert to reposition itself as one of the significant player in the industry. This all been done through the ingenious and new paradigm of advertising series on which could reinstate the big blue stigma. The transformation process that could penetrate the existing market with the new products (refer to tangible and intangible of IBM outcome) known as the product penetration strategy can be best served
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3: McPhillen v. Intoxicated Man Kaplan University PA165: Introduction to Torts Prof: Laurence Mraz June 26‚ 2012 McPhillen v. Intoxicated Man Facts: On the night Leroy McPhillen was a patron of The Bottom’s Up Pub‚ an intoxicated man began shouting obscenities at a woman seated at a table near Mr. McPhillen. As the woman ignored the man’s ranting‚ the man then approached the woman in a threatening manner. Before the man reached the woman‚ Mr. McPhillen invited the man to join him at
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Executive Summary IBM and Accenture are both huge companies and uses five factor DuPont analysis to achieve a return on equity. IBM has a higher return on equity than Accenture‚ and therefore the management are more efficient in generating shareholder value per dollar invested. However both the companies are performing better than the industry average. IBM does also take lesser number of days to convert cash on hand compared to Accenture and industry average. But‚ Accenture is taking more days
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